“And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice!”
– Euripides
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
– J.M. Barrie
Life is not easy. It’s also not fair. Often, it’s not even logical.
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The Ultimate Life Hack? A Dark, Quiet Room
“Anything in my life that I would recommend to someone else just to make their life better? An underrated thing that you can do that no one does anymore: just sit in a dark room. Give yourself, like, twenty minutes, don’t meditate, actually think about things, and I feel like…if you have a bunch of problems in your life, it’s amazing how twenty minutes alone in a dark room in the middle of the day can change everything.“
– Chuck Klosterman on the How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black podcast
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust
In a world of fake news, alternative facts, skewed polls, and misremembered anecdotes, it can sometimes be difficult to know what is real and what is not.
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My Very Best Writing from 2016
2016 was my first full year with my own site.
Not coincidentally it is also the first year since 2012 in which I did not publish a book.
I first heard it in my elementary school music class.
I gave my two weeks notice on Friday.
You feel it start to wash over you like a massive wave breaking directly on your head.
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Week in Review (March 11, 2016)
I’ve been sick all week.
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My Very Best Writing from 2015
Overall, 2015 was probably my best year as a writer. A lot of great things happened.
The Passion of Christopher Pierznik 